Don’t the US pilots have to have positive id on everyone in the car before they can blast it? If one of the passengers left his passport in the tent, the American pilot needs to take his bombload home.
The Russians can hit all legitimate targets without getting second guessed by the JAG and the political officers in the Pentagon.
or the MSM, Greenpeace, PETA, Sierra Club, Code Pink and old hippies.........................
Now that I come to think about it, political officers and legal attaches were probably instrumental in the USSR becoming so entangled in Afghanistan back in the day.